Solana suffered a major outage that halted block production for over 25 minutes before validators began preparing for restart.
The Solana blockchain suffered a major outage today and halted block production around 10:22 UTC.
Nearly an hour later, Solana validators are preparing for a restart. They will restart the Mainnet-Beta cluster using version 1.17.20; jito-solana release is also available.
The incident comes a year after Solana experienced a two-day outage in September 2021. Despite rapid adoption, Solana has faced persistent technical issues that have required multiple restarts.
According to posts by validators on X, the latest outage degraded performance across Solana Mainnet-Beta, preventing new blocks from being added. As a result, transactions piled up unprocessed for over 25 minutes - an eternity for a network designed to finalize blocks every 400 milliseconds.
The effects of the outage became visible through the crypto ecosystem. SOL prices sunk nearly 3.5% amid the uncertainty, falling below $94 from Tuesday's open above $97.
